The University of Lynchburg’s Cybersecurity Certificate program provides students with the skills necessary to become a cybersecurity analyst or consultant. The certificate requires the completion of four, three-credit-hour courses or modules. Coaching and exam opportunities can be tailored to individual needs.
This program is designed to meet the needs of:
- Students with a degree in a nontechnical field seeking to gain the skills necessary to become a cybersecurity analyst or consultant.
Instruction Method
- Online
Prerequisite
- Prior completion of a bachelor’s degree.
Upon completion of this certificate program, students will be able to:
- Administer IT systems.
- Apply security and forensic policies to IT systems.
- Apply and administer virtualization, distributed computing, kernel modules, databases, services, and libraries.
- Apply “best practices” to establish and implement system/network policies and procedures.
- Monitor system and network behavior and detect and diagnose anomalies related to security exploits.
- Understand and comply with laws and ethical codes that are relevant to system/network administration.
- Apply contemporary computer forensics tools to analyze and extract information from a computer system as part of a system incident response.
- Assess risks and vulnerabilities to the system/network and develop contingency plans for security incident mitigation.
- Detect defects in software that expose the system to attack.
- Develop administration-related scripts, set up integrated development environments (IDEs), and administer configuration management systems.
Faculty Contact
David Murphy, PhD, CPA
Professor of Accounting
Director of the Master of Business Administration Program
434.544.8387
murphy.d@lynchburg.edu
